[Info-vax] New PHP kits available (and a programming question)

[Mark Berryman]

I have made some new ports of PHP available as follows:

PHP 8.0.29
https://theberrymans.com/php_kits/php_axp_8_0_29.zip
https://theberrymans.com/php_kits/php_i64_8_0_29.zip
https://theberrymans.com/php_kits/php_x86_8_0_29.zip

PHP 8.1.20
https://theberrymans.com/php_kits/php_x86_8_1_20.zip

PHP 8.1 and later implement a new feature named fibers.  It is 
advertised as allowing a program running in a single thread to run 
multiple threads.  In reality, it simply allows one to create co-routines.

In order to implement this feature, PHP needs to be able to save and 
restore execution context, as well as the ability to jump to a saved PC 
location.  PHP uses the boost library to implement this and the boost 
library provides code in x86 assembly for the save/restore functions.  I 
had planned to implement similar functionality for Alpha and Integrity 
using Macro32, only to discover that Macro32 doesn't provide access to 
the floating point registers.

So, I'd to like to request an informal poll.  How many folks would like 
to have a version of PHP later than 8.0 for their Alpha or Integrity 
systems?

While I'm waiting for the answers, if anyone knows how I can 
save/restore execution context and jump to a saved PC location, I would 
appreciate any hints.  I had hoped to use the various *INVO* functions 
for this but, while I have found routines that will save the current 
context, I haven't found any that will load the contents of an INVO 
block back into the registers.

Also, what languages have access to all of the registers?

Mark Berryman